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The listing, Have no fear - joesbugs is here - Organic Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album) - 200+ Seeds has ended.

Seed Nov 2011 6-9 ft
Use like spinach but easier to grow.
As hi in minerals as spinach, lettuce, cabbage
Good source micronutrients.

Wild Blessings http://wildblessings.com/2011/06/01/lambsquarter-chenopodium-album/
2nd highest wild food nutrition. Amaranth #1
Use as spinach , salad, stir fry, soup, casserole. Grind seed to dark flour - make gruel/bread.
Leaves dry well, can reconstitute. Powder to make flour, mix w/ bit of water for tortilla
NUTRITION / 1/2 cup
SEED
Protein 19.6 gm
Fat 4.2 gm
Carb 57.7 gm
Fiber 27.1 gm
Calcium 1036 mg
Potassium 1687 mg
Niacin 3800 ug
Iron 64 mg
SHOOTS/LEAF
Protein 3.5 gm
Carb 5.5 gm
Calcium 324 mg
Potassium 684 mg
Beta Carotene 3800 ug
Niacin 1000 ug
Iron 1.5 mg
HEALTH BENEFITS
All parts - poultice for swelling, rheumatism, arthritis
Toothache - Chew raw
Gelatin cap w/ Lambsquarter a potent vitamin

--Grow throughout US. Wild seedlings show mid/late spring usually before last frost. Some germinate into summer.

--Germination increases w/ light, strong day & night temp fluctuation, & nitrogen. Mix compost, high nitrogen fertilizer or a generous amount of coffee grounds (contain 2% nitrogen) into bed.

--Mix the seeds with an inert material (sand, vermiculite, sawdust, peat moss) slightly damp so the seeds will stick (about 1/2 quart for each 10 sq. ft.) & broadcast over the area. Best germination occurs on top of the soil or at a depth no greater than 1/10 inch. Rake very lightly or not at all. Water in.

--3% are brown & germinate easily. Most black w/ varying dormancy. Some viable for decades. 10-30% germinate this season. That's why 200+ seeds. Rest germinate next season & next, etc. Transplant easily w/ almost no setback.

--One plant produces 30,000 -750,000+ seeds. If you let one go to seed in place, the next season you'll be harvesting 'em like miccrogreens or pulling 'em as weeds.

Questions & Comments

BREAKING NEWS
- - - - The possessive apostrophe in "Lamb's quarters" has been removed in this & all future listings of the seeds. Why?
- - - -People unknown, claiming to be variously, representatives of rock groups named lamb, lawyers for Gwen Stefani's product line & the executor of the estate of Mary's Little Lamb (that it's deceased must be true - no little lamb could live that long) are demanding a percentage of the credits as royalties. They say the quarters belong to them.

Feb 22nd, 2012 at 4:28:12 PM PST by

fanned and watching have never tried this but love spinach and chard

Feb 22nd, 2012 at 5:44:15 PM PST by

. . . Back atcha. Me too & they're great with lots of butter.

Feb 22nd, 2012 at 7:09:12 PM PST by

Geez Joe.............sorry to hear about the legal itch. Those people sound like our gubmint. I'm a fan. (Of you...........not the gubmint.)

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 10:16:57 AM PST by

. . . And now I'm a fan too (Of you.......not the gubmint). :)

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 11:19:39 AM PST by

mycozym,
. . . Some say they taste like spinach or chard, some say they taste better. I love all of 'em with lotsa butter.

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 11:25:08 AM PST by

. . . Gotta reply to myself here so the colors keep alternating. Besides maybe they'll give me a coupla more credits for doing Listia stuff.
. . . So what's that you say, Joe?
. . . "They're not the least bit of bot'er, not at all bitter, you can cook 'em with batter & they taste better with butter."
. . . Thank you Joe.

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 11:25:55 PM PST by

mmmmm butter now i do have to try these!!!i bet the chickens would love em too!!!i have a patch of earth thats bare due to digging up water line that they would grow good there..yr so funny!!!joe u rock!!!

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 7:02:49 PM PST by

. . . Thank you Aimee. And you are "the bomb". Oops - I hope the folks over at homeland security are familiar with the slang expression. :)

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 10:08:36 PM PST by

just cant believe no one has bid on these yet..well maybe i strted the action!!

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 7:04:21 PM PST by

Aimee,
. . . You are amazing. Bid on both my auctions!! How many chickens do you have to feed anyway? Shame we can't auction live stuff here or I could list my red worms for your chickens.
. . . Seems that folks often hang back waiting to pounce in the last minutes or seconds. Gotta admit I do that sometimes. And as a result, of course, karma has seen to it that I missed some things that I really wanted.
. . . Anyhow, thanks for kicking the bidding off.

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 10:25:12 PM PST by

Fanned and watching.

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 9:02:20 PM PST by

. . . Thanks & back atcha. Welcome to my auction

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 10:31:38 PM PST by

ya i know i sometimes do that,ill do it at the last minute,too bad u cant put redworms up for auction,id bid,i need to get some redworms to put in my worm house again,i hope u save the used stuff from the worms!!!makes great potting soil for house plants..if i had worms the chickens wouldnt get em,id use them,hahaha!!i also have a composter im going to start up when it gets warm once again..nice to see your still out there!!

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 10:45:40 PM PST by

. . . Oh yeh. In fact I have a rather large vermiculture windrow I set up with protection so those little suckers keep working for me right through the winter making that free fertilizer.

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 11:43:14 PM PST by

ya know i think ive seen these growing wild and i always thought they were weeds,hahaha,hey do u eat dandelion too???someone auctioned off dandelion seeds on here,so guess what im going to harvest all the dandelions in my yard and going to auction them off!!!

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 10:49:13 PM PST by

. . . Yeh, it's funny. He's auctioning 15 seeds for every 100 credits bid. Since Dandelions get bitter as they get older they should be harvested quite young unless you like bitter or are going to grow them for larger roots to use medicinally. If you want to use them in salads you should grow them in quantity with continual succession plantings.
. . . I have thousnds of dandelion seeds, purslane seeds (another edible weed with the highest omega 3 levels of any plant known) & stinging nettle seeds which I've been intending to list as soon as I got around to cleaning them properly & germination testing since they are from 2010 & I need to make sure they're still reasonably viable.
. . . If & when I do offer them it'll be in batches of 2 or 3 hundred so people can enjoy ;em in more than 1 or 2 salads.

Feb 24th, 2012 at 12:27:28 AM PST by

Becky,
. . . Welcome to my auction & thanks for your bid.
. . . Fanned you. Take that!! Good luck!

Feb 24th, 2012 at 12:36:39 AM PST by

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